We’ll be open so that you can study around the clock starting on Sunday, April 28 through Friday, May 10!

Hours will be as follows:

Open continuously from 10am on Sunday, April 28 until midnight on Friday, May 3.

Open 8am-9pm on Saturday, May 4.

Open continuously from 10am on Sunday, May 5 until 4pm on Friday, May 10.

Ten things to know about EXTENDED STUDY

1. The front doors will be locked at 9pm Sunday-Thursday and at 6pm Friday and Saturday.
2. During this time, please use the computer lab entrance.
3. Only members of the Loyola community will be permitted to be in the building when the front doors are locked.
4. A valid Loyola ID will be required to enter the library.
5. Study groups should work on the first floor in the Learning Commons or in a group study room.
6. Group study rooms can be checked out to two or more people. Renewals and reservations are not permitted during this time.
7. The second and third floors are reserved for quiet study.
8. Never leave your valuables unattended!
9. Please help our crew keep the library clean by utilizing trash bins.
10. Free coffee and tea will be available after midnight!

Good luck with finals!

In The Mood For Love

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood For Love takes us to Hong Kong in 1962. Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow have just moved next door to each other and soon discover that their spouses are having an affair. They turn to each other for comfort and companionship and a romance develops between them, but they choose not to act as their spouses have. Much of the story is told without dialogue and not everyone will enjoy its slower pace. But it’s a beautifully shot film with amazing music; it’s one of those movies you watch for the experience. And on a personal note, I want to wear all of Mrs. Chan’s amazing dresses.

-Kayla Whitehead, Electronic & Continuing Resources Analyst

Better World Books

Are you a literacy activist who also happens to be environmentally conscious and on a tight student budget? We have just the company for you! The Monroe Library partners with Better World Books, an environmentally friendly used book resale company that also shares proceeds from their sales with several literacy advocacy groups and charities. To top it all off, they have great prices on used books, including textbooks and shipping is usually free! If you haven’t checked them out yet, please do so in honor of Earth Day. Help spread literacy while saving the Earth AND getting a good deal on those costly course books!

On April 18, 1974, Loyola’s The Maroon featured headlines from the future election of a new president of Loyola, to a campus wide tenure scare. The most interesting part of the April 4, 1974 The Maroon is a cartoon pictured below. I can safely say this cartoon applies to me and most other seniors, and more than likely most of Loyola with summer just around the corner!

Blog post by Kristen Blomeyer, Special Collections work-study student and Social Media and Outreach Intern.

Found in the Archives is a recurring series of crazy cool stuff found in the Monroe Library’s Special Collections & Archives.

Cajun music, and its cousin, zydeco, are musical forms that originated in south Louisiana.  Cajun music ranges from small to large ensembles, from folk to pop, country and rock styles, and is available to hear in the Monroe Library, on CD and LP.  Cajun is usually sung in a local form of French and played on violin, small accordion, guitar, bass, and drums.  Zydeco can be in French or English and features large accordions, electric guitar and bass, rubboard, and sometimes saxophone and trumpet.  There’s a large original group of songs, like the Valse de Bayou Teche and the Eunice two step, with some English pop, rock and country tunes.  We have recordings by giants like Clifton Chenier, BeauSoleil, the Balfa Brothers, and Amedé Ardoin.  We have CD and vinyl recordings; click here to do a catalog search.

The Loyola Ballet celebrates National Dance Week with performances next Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27. Directed by Laura Zambrano, the performances will mix contemporary and classic works. Moreover, the performances incorporate a celebration of Loyola’s centennial. Both are set for 8 pm in Roussel Hall.

Below are some vintage photographs of performing arts at Loyola. Be sure to check out the Loyola University Photographs Collection for more unique photographs throughout the years.

Blog post by Kristen Blomeyer, Special Collections work-study student and Social Media and Outreach Intern.

Found in the Archives is a recurring series of crazy cool stuff found in the Monroe Library’s Special Collections & Archives.

The Bachelor of Arts studio exhibit will open Monday, April 22, and the Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibit will open Monday, May 6. Both senior shows are a culmination of a year’s worth of work in which the artists develop their own body of work that expresses ideas and processes derived from individual question and concerns.

“The maturity and professionalism that each student brings to their work is superior. Their individuality and perception are very moving and poignant. The work speaks to real issues that have affected each personally; issues they feel deeply about are addressed,” said visual arts professor Mark Grote. “In spite of and because of each one’s private search, their work has a universal appeal.”

Bachelor of Arts
Opening Reception
Monday, April 22, 5-8 p.m.

Robert Cappelli
Nicholas Rodriguez
Morgan Scalco
Alexandra Shafer
Sarah Tortorich

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Opening Reception
Monday, May 6, 5-8 p.m.

Bria Brown
Elyria Grote
Jenna Knoblach
Hans Kuebler
Morgan Lirette

With summer around the corner, it is officially festival season in New Orleans! Last weekend was French Quarter Festival and Jazz Festival begins in exactly ten days.

Here at Loyola, today was a celebration known as Founder’s Fest, a Jazz Fest-style celebration right on Loyola’s Peace Quad. Musical acts featured the likes of the Stooges Brass Band, the Loyola University Jazz Band, Loyola’s own Lyle Henderson and Emmanu-El, and John Rankin, Loyola guitar and music industries studies instructor. Below is a photograph from the Loyola University Photographs Collection of former Loyola students relaxing in Jackson’s Square. Scenes like the one below are sure to be reenacted within the upcoming months.

Blog post by Kristen Blomeyer, Special Collections work-study student and Social Media and Outreach Intern.

Found in the Archives is a recurring series of crazy cool stuff found in the Monroe Library’s Special Collections & Archives.

In Special Collections & Archives is a 1858 volume of Mitchell’s Ancient Atlas, “containing maps illustrating classical and sacred geography.”

Samuel Augustus Mitchell was an educator and, later in life, writer and publisher of maps. Mitchell Company was one of the first in the publishing industry to engrave on steel plates.

The atlas is based on works by the “writers of antiquity” and on “sacred geography.” The indexes give the ancient name of each location, its class (towns, rivers, mountains, etc.), country name, which map it can be found on, and the location’s “modern” name. While neither the Garden of Eden nor the lost city of Atlantis are featured, the color-illustrated maps are gorgeous and represent important historical events like Alexander the Great’s route from Greece to India and Babylon; the extent of the Roman Empire’s land holdings at its height around A.D. 107; and the countries mentioned in the Old Testament.

The book belonged to Miss Maggie Cooper, a student of “Orleans Female Academy” (most likely the New Orleans Female Dominican Academy, now St. Mary’s Dominican High School). Her handwritten notes mark several pages of the book.

Loyola’s fully digitized copy of the Ancient Atlas can be viewed online in the Louisiana Digital Library or in person in Special Collections & Archives, where we also have an 1844 edition. Other Mitchell’s atlases (Mitchell’s Ancient Geography and an 1856 Ancient Atlas) can be found in the Internet Archive.

Found in the Archives is a recurring series of crazy cool stuff found in the Monroe Library’s Special Collections & Archives